Nearly every time he’s given a speech in the last year, Gen. John Hyten, the head of U.S. Air Force Space Command, has said the Defense Department needs to better prepare for a war in space.
He paints a vivid ...

Inside the UK’s Space Startup Central
Long before the United Kingdom announced its intention to become Europe’s hub for spaceflight and space technologies, the government was working to expand its share of the...

The Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (CSLCA) represents a tremendous achievement for American space leadership. This legislation will enable the continued growth of the commercial space sector by all...

ORBCOMM-2 First-stage landing. Credit: SpaceXFor many, the end of 2015 marked the beginning of a new era in space access.
On Dec. 21, SpaceX successfully landed a Falcon 9 first stage back at Cape C...

When nine U.K. space industry entrepreneurs traveled to Texas and Utah last year to attend space conferences as part of a government-backed trade mission, they also met with U.S. investors who are becoming incr...

Five Hundred Million Dollar Shave Club
DMSP satellite. Credit: Lockheed Martin Artist's Concept“We spent $500 million that could have been used to support national security. Instead, it’s going into the...

NASA’s next flagship astronomy mission after the James Webb Space Telescope will become a formal project in February thanks to increased funding and direction from Congress, even as the agency looks to make cut...

We are living in what I would argue is the second Elizabethan Age — an age of commerce, exploration and discovery in space driven by geopolitical, commercial and cultural factors so incredibly similar to those ...